Monday After: A look back at the polio vaccine and its impact on Stark County
The cure for a disease that was crippling our children arrived in Stark County 66 years ago. "April 12 Verdict on Vaccine Is Seen As Death Knell of Widespread Polio," a front-page headline in The Canton Repository reported on April 3, 1955, looking ahead to the upcoming day when a press conference was expected to confirm the effectiveness of the anti-polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk of Pittsburgh. "Go-Ahead Signal Is Expected to All-Out Attack." And, indeed, little more than a week later, an announcement said that results of testing on 400,000 children done in the summer of 1954 b...
Source: cantonrep.com